Intriguing spider on eBay

[knightjar]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=301&item=4375265923&rd=1

Nice looking spider. More information about the seller than the spider in the listing though!

 

[Spaceman_Spiff]

These spiders are everything but uncommon!
It is from the Thomisidae family, perhaps Misumena vatia.
They vary in colour from white to yellow and pink, depending on the species of flower they have chosen as their home.

greets
Bernhard

 

[Black Hawk]

wait...didn't i just see that except brown :? ...http://www.arachnoboards.com/ab/showthread.php?t=43731...

 

[Scorpendra]

the common name escapes me, but it is a nice looking crab spider. though, shouldn't it be shipped though some sort of online bidding area for inverts or something? is there even one of those? i've only seen one for fish and one for reptiles.

wait...didn't i just see that except brown :? ...http://www.arachnoboards.com/ab/showthread.php?t=43731...

what you have there is a species of orb weaver; this is a crab. (not the crustacean, nor the insect)

 

[Black Hawk]

huh, u learn something new every day

 

[Cigarman]

I've seen those in big white flowers around here in Maine. They have a common name of Crab Spider I think and they are pretty common. No rarity there unless perhaps you're on the galapagos islands....